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Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership

posted by takyon on Saturday January 12 2019, @05:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the chip-off-the-old...chip? dept.

martyb writes:

Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership:

[The Raspberry Pi] Foundation has announced that it is joining the RISC-V Foundation, suggesting that a shift away from Arm could be on the cards. "We're excited to have joined the RISC-V Foundation as a silver member," the Raspberry Pi Foundation posted to its Twitter account. "[We're] hoping to contribute to maturing the Linux kernel and Debian port for the world's leading free and open instruction set architecture."

A shift from the proprietary Arm architecture to RISC-V would fit in nicely with the Foundation's goal of low-cost, highly-accessible computing for education and industry – but would put paid to its tradition of keeping backwards compatibility where possible, something it has already suggested might be the case when it moves away from the Broadcom BCM283x platform for the Raspberry Pi 4. Foundation co-founder Eben Upton, though, is clear: the Foundation is currently focusing on supporting the ISA in software, and not with a development board launch.

I'm curious how many Soylentils have a Raspberry Pi (or more than one) and which model(s). How has your experience been? What are the positives and shortcomings you've encountered? Do you think it would be a good move for them to move to RISC-V?

More background on RISC-V is available at Wikipedia.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by coolgopher on Sunday January 13 2019, @04:43AM (1 child)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Sunday January 13 2019, @04:43AM (#785792)

    Not the AC, but allow me to provide some links anyway:

    • Banana Pi [banana-pi.org] has a bunch of options. Seem reasonably popular. Have tested a Banana Pi M2U, but due to lack of support for SATA port multipliers I didn't stick with it.
    • Orange Pi [orangepi.org] also has a heap of offerings. You'll often find one of these in crypto mining ASIC rigs, since they're so cheap.
    • Beagle Boards [beagleboard.org] are popular in the maker communities. Haven't used any myself.
    • The ODROID [hardkernel.com] family of boards also tend to show in that same context. Again, no personal experience.
    • Nano Pi [nanopi.org] is another contender, but only the low-end of the scale. Haven't tried it.
    • Rock64 [pine64.org] is my favourite SBC at the moment. Comes in a 4G RAM model, and has a USB3.0 port. Blows the RPi 3 out of the water in terms of performance, and well worth the little bit of extra money.

    None of these have the same community as the Raspberry, but in many cases advice for a Raspberry is applicable to any SBC running Linux.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday January 13 2019, @10:48PM

    by Bot (3902) on Sunday January 13 2019, @10:48PM (#786080) Journal

    I use an odroid c1+ as a Kodi/libreelec server after the attempt as a supercollider audio sink was unsuccessful (no mmap mode for the hifi shield). It has an old kernel but if the kernel gets to 4.x i would try again. As a libreelec machine serving 1280x720 video @ 60 fps it is decent and stable. Also tried it with volumio and runeaudio, it worked. Eth is way better than rpi. I'll likely get a c2.

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